An interesting thing in my regional newspaper today about Ford Motor Company:

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. plans to release details of its planned conversion of the long-vacant Michigan Central train station just west of downtown Detroit. The Dearborn-based automaker recently bought the 105-year-old building and is expected to redevelop the 500,000-square-foot (46,000-square-meter) structure as part of its plans for a campus focusing on autonomous vehicles.

The station, which looms over Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, has stood empty since the last train left in 1988 . Stripped by vandals and time of its past beauty and value, the building came to symbolize Detroit’s long decline from manufacturing powerhouse to bankruptcy.

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The article goes on about the history of the Michigan Central rail station, its demise in 1988 and aborted projects to renovate it, and what Ford hopes to do with it now that the company has acquired it.